Error installing a package ??

[Len Philpot]

On 05/26/2013 at 07:38 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>On 05/27/13 08:19, Jim wrote:
>> Fedora 18, Trying to install a package, nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm and I get
the following error message, What Gives ??
>
>You have downloaded a poorly packaged application.  It is potentially making
changes to permissions and/or selinux contexts on /, /usr, /opt and other
directories.
>
>I would report this issue to the folks supplying the package. 
>
>You could force install it...which may break things. 

With such files I have on occasion used...

# cp rpmfile.rpm /tmp
# cd /tmp
# rpm2cpio rpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv

...and then copied the resulting file structure to where it needs to go. But
usually I do that only in a pinch when I really need a package and can find it
in no other format than the improperly packaged rpm file.

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